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The social media monitoring tools industry in the Russian speaking countries is still in the early stages of development . Until recently , all monitoring was done manually by using free search tools such as Yandex.blogs, Google.ru, Twitter, Facebook and Vkontakte search. The data was presented in Excel, sentiment analysis was carried out and the results were presented in the form of graphs and reports. NetMind is one of the first social media monitoring agencies in Moscow, working specifically in this area. Anna Rokina, the Director of Research explains the particulars of online monitoring in Runet. From this podcast I learnt about the current state of the industry. Further to this, I used the following presentation whereby she compares all the social media monitoring platforms available in the Russian market. I’ve translated the main function of the each tool and its developers.

Social media monitoring tools produced in Russia and Ukraine.

Brandspotter – produced by marketers and web developers. Offers sentiment analysis, has its own metrics system and is applicable for measuring the efficiency of social media campaigns.

Buzzware – produced by monitoring experts, marketers and researchers for social media monitoring.

I spoke with Alexander Sirach, the Sales and Marketing Director at YouScan and Anton Popov , the MD of Buzzware to learn more about these products. YouScan is the first automated social media monitoring platform in Russia and Ukraine, it released to the market in January 2010. This platform’s clients are leading digital marketing & PR agencies in Russia and international companies. According to Alexander the main competitive advantage of the tool is its unique web crawling technology. This enables more content to be indexed as they are not solely pulling the data from the search engines API’s. Sentiment analysis is done manually by trained analysts,categorizing results and reporting to clients.

Buzzware’s advantage is that it was created by social media monitoring experts with a good understanding of the specifics of this industry. In addition, the platform has the most intuitive interface and a great reporting system.

So, what about the Western Social Media Monitoring platforms?

As far as I know the Western tools struggle to develop a good quality of monitoring tools applicable to the Russian Internet. The main challenge has always been the Russian morphology and now it’s the competition with local players. I came across only Radian6 which offers monitoring in the Russian cyberspace. Sysomos claims to provide multilingual services, but I haven’t received confirmation that Russian is included.